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A test for Ted Haggard, now completely hetero 2/6/2007

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Can he watch a Chippendale’s show and not get a boner?

No, I didn’t think so either.
I will save my compassion for those who struggle with the dichotomy of sexual drive in the moral cloud honestly, when it comes to themselves, and mercifully, when it comes to others.

Ted Haggard is queer for life, and the torment he has caused for others similarly arrayed sexually is like a Karmic knife in his guts. Damn him for awhile, I say, at least until he owns up for his own soul, confesses his cruelty and hypocrisy, and apologizes to those people he hurt, marginalized, victimized, and demonized, without cause.

Note: This post was corrected due to a boneheaded error on my part goofing up Haggard’s first name. Thanks to alert reader and good friend Jenny for pointing out this error!!

Timely update 12/9/2006

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When I broke it off last time, we were yucking it up out here with my Mother-in-law, who was visiting the babies. Next, we took the motorhome back to Illinois, returned to California, won control of Congress, and then I had a heart attack.

I awoke at 1:30AM with a nagging pain and pressure in my chest. It was right in the midline, directly behind my sternum. It wasn’t bad enough for me not to try to go back to sleep.
I awoke again at 4:30 with the same bullshit going on. I went to work for an hour, but could not shake the pain so I went to the hospital. They kept me in the ER for hours until a second blood test result sent them into enough of a tizzy to give me some Oxygen and Nitro.

One long ambulance ride later I was enjoying my very own angioplasty in Bakersfield. The procedure, though not altogether pleasant, saved my life.

So your blogger isn’t dead, even though you would never know it by looking at my posting habits over the past 6 months!

If it helps, I have started and aborted about 6 posts over the past couple months. Funny how the cat gets your tongue, huh?

A Smoking Hole 10/9/2006

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Remember www.defenddelay.com? Looks like it’s been abandoned.

Good newz! defendhastert.com is available!

Republicans in for a trip to the woodshed?

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No doubt about it, so long as your friendly local Diebold Accuvote-TS hasn’t been hacked, of course.

If you have a chance, watch the video demonstration on the page, it’ll open your eyes to the possibilities!
Meanwhile, I have put up some graphics over in the sidebar that will allow you to follow the projections from electoral-vote.com. Click on the links to be taken to the site. Just don’t get your hopes up, or down, too far regardless of the projections; remember they are just that and nothing more. I have been and am sensing a groundswell of anti-Republican feelings in even some of my most doctrinaire Republican friends. It is too soon to tell how that will translate into vote percentages come November, but I am feeling optimistic nonetheless.

The optimal solution for this election cycle is a resounding and thorough ass-kicking for the Republican Party, in both houses of Congress, for a number of reasons:

Since it’s never to early to dream, here are a few faves whom I hope to see kicked to the curb:

Rick Santorum (R) Senate-PA. An idiot. He has been nothing but a tool for James Dobson his entire career. I think Rick hears that train a-comin’. Chances are good for this to happen.

Dennis Hastert (R) House Dist 14-IL. Okay, this one is a hope against all hope, but I am hanging on nonetheless. Dennis Hastert has presided over the first Congress in memory to actually legalize torture. This corpulent Washington burnout has enriched himself and his friends in the Kendall County Republican Mafia at the expense of everyone else and deserves a place in the stable come November. I am hoping for a large, angry, turnout in his district. (Chances are poor, but one can hope, can’t one?)
Richard Pombo (R) House Dist 11-CA One of the biggest beneficiaries of Abramoff loot, House Resource Committee Chairman Pombo has repeatedly blocked efforts to investigate Abramoff and his own ties to the Marianas sweat shops and sex slave operations. Pombo needs to go to prison, seriously. You better believe he is sweating this coming election day.
*Though difficult for some to comprehend, the Congress actually has power over the Executive Branch of Government. Examples: Impeachment and origination of all bills of revenue (House of Representatives); Advice and Consent + Ratification of all treaties +Trials of Impeachment (Senate); Override of vetoes, Declaration of war, and the power to subpoena (both)

Another Foley For America 10/5/2006

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Well, my blessed Mother In Law is here to soak in the babiness going on and we spent a pleasant afternoon caring for Magpie while her Mom went to a meeting at the office. It was all going so smoothly until Maggie started squirming and my MIL informed me that the reason she was flailing about was that her diaper was loaded with crap and that we had no more replacements. No. I did not smell anything. But I hopped on the bike and hauled it to two stores before I found what turned out to be the wrong size diapers. Luckily, Emz drove up with reinforcements in hand and the situation was fixed without any further involvement from your correspondent. Oh well, at least I’ll have a big stack of diapers on hand for when Mags and Fabs, or Frilly Vanilli as the duo is soon to be known, grow into them.

Doubtless the educated, caring, and patient readers I attract by accident are well-aware of the problems besetting first, the erstwhile Congressman and admirer of the well-formed page, Mark Foley, and my old civics teacher from Yorkville, IL, now Speaker of the House of Representatives, Denny Hastert. The buck, it seems, has roosted on the footrest of Hastert’s Barcalounger forcefully enough to propel him to his office in Batavia to announce that he takes responsibility for his inactions and will continue to serve as speaker, thanks.

I am startled by the contrition.

Like I said, I have known Dennis Hastert since my High School days. I knew him when he used to be a single, Porsche-driving, turn on the projector and go to sleep civics teacher. I liked him back in the day and I got a lot of science fiction reading done in his class. Had he remained a civics teacher, he and I would probably still get along fine. Heck, we’d probably get along fine anyway. I know a lot of assholes that I still like.

But it really sucks when the Speaker of the House is an asshole. And Dennis Hastert has proven to be the biggest asshole of a speaker we have ever had. Not once, during his lengthy tenure in the job, has the man stood up to announce that he was going to do something for the nation. His tenure has been a never-ending series of behind the scenes concensus building to ensure that the dick of governance was always inserted in the orifices of the poor, the weak, the disabled.

Democrats, in other words.

As happens all-too-often, the thing you least expect is what comes back to bite you in the ass. Funny how a closeted gay Republican with a burning desire to jack off over AOL’s instant messenger service with indentured teen boys would be the cause of Denny’s first crisis of leadership in the House. It seems that a lot of his power base takes this sort of hijinking seriously enough to discomfit his pleasant repose in Plano, IL, and drive him up the congested Fox Valley to Batavia to accept his buck.

This gets me thinking: remember 1994? The speaker, at that time, was Tom Foley, a rather haughty Washington State Democrat who got his comeuppance in that year by not only losing control of the House in a bloodbath of reknown, but who also lost his seat to George Nethercutt, an undistinguised Republican hack who later backpedalled on his commitment to term limits and finally lost to Patty Murray in the 2004 Senate race.

Well, Tom Foley got creamed when no one expected it. Could you and I share a moment in humble prayer, Dear, Patient, Reader?

Dear Jesus,

Please let the Republicans in the 14th district of Illinois, my ol’ home place, vote out my old civics teacher, Dennis Hastert, and replace him with John Laesch, who is a Democrat.

John will be so surprised, and it will tickle me to the point where I just might go to church in observance of the feast of miracles such a revelation would bestow upon our sad calendar. Infest Kendall County and those parts of Dupage, Kane, Dekalb, Lee, Whiteside, Bureau, and Henry Counties from whence the 14th is made with angry Democrats moving out of the city with a lot of money in their pockets and a bit of charity left in their hearts for the future of our nation. Sweet Jesus, kick Denny Hastert out of office, I beg you.

Amen.